The recent Israeli daylight strike at the heart of the Iranian Shiite project has shown the Iranian-Hezbollah behemoth to be a paper tiger incapable of ultimately defeating the Moderate Sunni-Israeli alliance that is congealing against is hegemonic imperial ambitions.
In February 2013, Mehdi Taeb, a high-level Iranian cleric speaking to Iran’s Basij (paramilitary group attached to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps), said "Syria is . . . [Iran’s] 35th province and a strategic province for us. If the enemy attacks us and wants to take either Syria or Khuzestan, the priority for us is to keep Syria . . . If we keep Syria, we can get Khuzestan back too, but if we lose Syria, we cannot keep Tehran."
What was Taeb saying? Taeb was saying if Iran loses the Arabic-Syria, Iran’s 35th Province, nothing will stop the Arabs from cascading eastward and taking the Iranian Arab-majority Khuzestan Province. Khuzestan holds 90 percent of Iran’s oil reserves, and lies, defenseless, west of the Zagros Mountains that form Iran’s western border. And, without the oil-rich Khuzestan, Iran is nothing but a bankrupt, oil-poor, Bangladesh of an Islamic country.
Fantasy? Aisha Noor in the leading Pakistani daily, The Nation, recently wrote in an Op-Ed: “The twin crises in Syria and Egypt have marked the emergence of a new superpower coalition in the Middle East, the odd-couple alliance of Israel and Saudi Arabia, with Jordan serving as an intermediary and the Persian Gulf oil sheikdoms playing a supporting role.”
So, by Israel striking Iran’s weakest link, Assad, Israel has brought joy to hundreds of millions of Sunnis who rightly see the Persian Iranians as their true arch enemy, not Israel. And, even better, Iran is impotent to so much as lift a single Hezbollah finger against Israel in retaliation.
Consequently, the Israeli raid has given millions of Arab Sunnis hope that the Iran’s Shiite prisons called “Syria” and “Iraq” will soon be broken, and all the Arabs will come east for their rightful inheritance, the oil-rich Arab region of Khuzestan.
In this Arab Shiite-Sunni War, what is the Persian Iranians’ big-picture strategy? Do the Arab Sunnis really want to behead Arab Shiites, and vice versa? Some do, but most don’t. But, the Shiite-colonizing Persian Iranians have purposefully instigated an Arab Sunni-Shiite sectarian holocaust.
The Persian Iranian goal is not for all “the Shiites” to win, but for all the Arabs, all the Sunnis and Shiites alike, to so murder themselves and divide themselves that the Arabs will have no energy left when the Persian Iranians come in for the kill, and take the entire Arab “Persian” Gulf with its 56 percent of the world's oil supply. This war isn’t a Shia-Sunni War; this is a Persian-Arab War. But, unfortunately, the Arabs are just being played for rank fools by their Persian Iranian puppeteers.
Hence, Israel’s attack on the Damascus Airport arms depot will, in years to come, be seen as nothing less than a modern-day attack of the Bastille by the French Revolutionaries. By attacking Damascus, Israel has signaled it stands with the moderate Sunni Arabs, and with all Arabs including Shiites, against the Shiite colonializing tyranny of the Persian Iranians.
Israel bravely rejected Obama’s molly-coddling, de facto protection, of Assad, Iran’s puppet, and showed itself to be the functional heart of an Israeli-moderate Pan-Arab alliance. And, with time, this Israeli-Moderate Arab alliance will come to vanquish Iran’s modern-day Shiite colonization of the Arab world, and of the earlier Safavid Empire’s Shiite colonization of Iran itself.
So, by Israel surgically striking Assad, Iran’s weakest link, Israel has brought hope to hundreds of millions of Sunnis who rightly see the Persian Iranians as their true arch enemy. And, even better, the Persian Iranians have been shown to the entire Arab world that it is totally impotent to so much as lift a single Hezbollah finger against Israel.
The Israeli strike, therefore, has shown the Hezbollah-Iranian behemoth to be nothing more than a paper tiger incapable of responding to a daylight Israeli raid on the heart of their 35th Province. And consequently, the Israeli raid has given millions of Arab Sunnis reason to dream that the Iranian Shiite prisons called “Syria” and “Iraq” will soon be broken, and all the Arabs will come for their rightful inheritance, Khuzestan, the Arabic-speaking Iranian Province where the Persian have stolen and raped it of all its Arab petrodollars.
In sum, Israel doesn’t need to attack Iran with thousands of miles or hundreds of F-16s traveling to destroy the Persian Iranians nuclear bomb plants. All Israel needs to do is to allow the south Syrian moderate Sunni rebels to congeal and to start a pan-Arabic avalanche which will sweep eastward, and demolish the Persian Iranians' neo-Safavidic Empire.
Mark Langfan is an Arutz Sheva contributor who specializes in security issues. He is chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel, is a senior fellow of the London Center, and is the Artuz Sheva correspondent to the United Nations. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.
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